Pathfinder for Moodle beginners – Groups and Groupings #LearnMoodle

Few days ago, we posted about the Generico filter pathfinder written by Steve Ambro, Moodle community member from US and now Steve is back with another pathfinder tutorial for Moodle beginners based on the “Groups and Groupings” topic.

The new pathfinder is to introduce the new moodlers with the difference in the terms Groups and Groupings in Moodle world. The pathfinder will explain about creating groups, assigning students in groups and then using those groups in assignment activities. Afterwards, it covers about how to apply the groups to groupings.

Groups in Moodle:

The Groups feature allows you to divide up the students on your course into groups, such as their class groups. Students can then undertake Moodle activities within these groups, allowing them to work together more closely, and encouraging more participation from each member than they might get in a whole-class exercise.

Why use groups:

You are a teacher in a course where you have several classes and you want to filter your activities and gradebook so you only see one class at a time.

You are a teacher sharing a course with other teachers and you want to filter your activities and gradebook so you don’t see the students from your colleagues’ classes.

You want to allocate a particular activity, resource or topic section to just one class or set of users and you don’t want others to see it

Groupings:

A grouping is a collection of groups within a course. Using groupings allows you to direct tasks at one or more groups in your course, so that they can work together on the tasks.

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Jaswinder Singh

Jaswinder Singh, passionate about using Moodle in improving the Indian Education System and reaching the students in far flung areas where still education seems to be a impossible prospect of life. He is the author of the popular Moodle Book "How to use Moodle 2.7". In October 2016, Jaswinder was elected as the Moodle User's Association Committee member - the first to make it from India.